Mounting NTFS Partition problem with 975XBX

[zbrett]

I have an Intel 975xbx motherboard, and I'm having a great deal of difficulty getting Kubuntu 6.06 LTS to mount the raid drive (sdb1) which is a NTFS partition. Here are the fdisk results and how I've edited the fstab.

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 4650 37351093+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 4651 4905 2048287+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 4906 30401 204796620 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 60800 488375968+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdc: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk /dev/sdc doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/sdd: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes


# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 / ext3 nouser,defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1
/dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda /media/cdrom0 auto users,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/sda3 /mnt/windows ntfs umask=0222,uid=0,gid=0,auto,rw,nouser 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/windows ntfs umask=0222,uid=0,gid=0,auto,rw,nouser 0 0

[img width=400 height=351]http://www.geocities.com/z_brett/images/drives1.png[/img]


The OS "sees" the drive, but won't mount it. It shows up as Enabled in System Settings. For example, when I click on the sdb1 drive in Konqueror, I get the error message:

Could not mount device.
The reported error was:
mount: according to mtab, /dev/sda3 is already mounted on /mnt/windows
mount failed

I also tried ntfsmount, but that didn't work either:

user@user-linux:~$ sudo ntfsmount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/windows -o fmask=0111,dmask=0
Couldn't mount device '/dev/sdb1': Input/output error
Mount failed.

I've gone through a bunch of searches and FAQs and haven't been able to solve the problem.

Thanks

[zbrett]

Re: Mounting NTFS Partition problem with 975XBX

Okay, I redited the fstab:

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sda3 /media/sda3 ntfs nls=utf8,umask=0222,uid=0,gid=0,auto,rw,nouser 0 0
/dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1 ntfs nls=utf8,umask=0222,uid=0,gid=0,auto,rw,nouser 0 0

and I'm still getting errors:

brett@linux-pc:~$ sudo mount -a
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

[binary2k2]

Re: Mounting NTFS Partition problem with 975XBX

In your 1st post /dev/sda3 and /dev/sdb1 were being mounted to the same mount point, so that's what was wrong there.
As to your 2nd post, make sure the partitions are unmounted then run

sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /media/dsb1 -o nls=utf8,umask=0222,rw

If that fails, look at the output of

dmesg|tail

to see if there are any read errors.

Do you have a windows system that can check if the filesystem is ok? It may be that something has corrupted it.

[zbrett]

Re: Mounting NTFS Partition problem with 975XBX

Thanks for the reply...

When I use your suggestions, I get the following:

user@linux-pc:~$ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1 -o nls=utf8,umask=0222,rw
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

user@linux-pc:~$ dmesg|tail
[17179605.440000] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
[17179605.440000] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[17179605.464000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[17179605.464000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[17179605.464000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.7
[17180165.432000] printk: 74 messages suppressed.
[17180165.432000] NTFS-fs error (device sdb1): ntfs_attr_find(): Inode is corrupt. Run chkdsk.
[17180165.432000] NTFS-fs error (device sdb1): ntfs_read_inode_mount(): Failed to lookup attribute list attribute. You should run chkdsk.
[17180165.432000] NTFS-fs error (device sdb1): ntfs_read_inode_mount(): Failed. Marking inode as bad.
[17180165.432000] NTFS-fs error (device sdb1): ntfs_fill_super(): Failed to load essential metadata.

I ran a complete CHKDSK last night (it took forever), and the NTFS partition checks out OK. Its my active WinXP partition, and it boots just fine.

So, I'm a lost noob. Now what.